Mute Witness

Mute Witness (1995)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1995-09-28

Country

Germany, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Comet Film Produktion GmbH, Avrora Media, Cobblestone Pictures

Genre

Thriller, Horror

Budget

$2 000 000

Revenue

$1 125 910

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Director

Anthony Waller

Actors

Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards, Igor Volkov, Sergei Karlenkov, Alec Guinness, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Nikolai Pastukhov, Aleksandr Bureyev, Yuriy Sherstnyov
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Operator

Egon Werdin

Composer

Wilbert Hirsch

Artist

Audition

Editing

All team (7)

• Screenwriter, producer, and director Anthony Waller happened to meet Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) in Hamburg in 1985 and asked if he would like to play a cameo role. Guinness agreed and even said he was willing to do it for free. The problem was that Guinness's schedule was set for the next eighteen months and allowed for no changes, so Waller and Guinness agreed to meet the following morning in the same underground parking lot. Guinness did indeed play a small scene and did not charge for it. As for Waller, the chance to include this scene in the film only presented itself ten years later.
• Anthony Waller moved the film's setting from Chicago to Moscow because filming there was much cheaper.
• Screenwriter, producer, and director Anthony Waller accidentally met Sir Alec Guinness in Hamburg in 1985 and asked if he would like to play a cameo role. Guinness agreed and even said he was willing to do it for free. However, Guinness's schedule was booked for the next year and a half, so Waller and Guinness agreed to meet the next morning in the same place, in the underground parking lot. Guinness did indeed play a small scene and did not charge for it. Waller included this scene in the film only 10 years later.